Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 10

In Mr. Walker Whiteside’s Great- est Comedy Success “WE ARE KING’ | accomplishment. Morey Value of Politeness. The servitor toward attitude of too many public ms to be one of hostility Manifest indispo- tly proper | uch defects ot certain to bar ment in any call- may bring a-high ; without any grace ner, but the majority of employes do not possess exception- al talents and must rise by energy, in- te pleasing personality. This le uality more than any other explains t » of certain per- | Very ordinary to honors endly per- much bet- so great is the sets upon good | public. sition t swer | shown. e almost adve the way to ing. Superior degree of or suavity and a sons to hi men have and fort son ter an value which the nature | Rattler. ompson of East pluck by rattlesnake her ee-foot ch near ind when the foothill country the reptile > front of her, ob- structin ar iway, the woman | procured 1 ed shovel and with on¢ arly severed the | snake’s head dy Afterward measured her victim that he nearly forty and the possessor of seven button. was and found and a Peanuts as Food. The little peanut that only a few years ago was considered by the phy- sicians as unfit to put into the stom- ach is now the ba of the food prod- ucts of one of the | t sanitariums in the country—s proves it to contain three times the nutriment of beef—henec it becomes better | known and its value realized, it enters | the bill of fare in the e of peanut butter, salted peam soup, cakes, etc. M ns throughout the bread lubricant | no other | country use than peanut butter prepared from the roasted nut Unusual Revival. Captain Knowles, »erintendent ot | the life-savir ice at Providence, | men working uninter- | forty-five | restore to | hour ffort one in the nan who to »een under water | efore the body | ashore, his | efforts were sucg ifortunat’e limbs re clinched and en plum, show- | xce or Jocal | d purple t there was no surfs ing th circulation. Legends of the Kingfisher. Many and curious are legends of the kingfisher. One of these is to the effect that the bird was originally a plain gray in color, but upon being let loose from the ark flew toward, the setting sun and had its back stained blue by the sky and its lower plumage scorched by the sun to gor- geous hues. The dried body of the Kingfisher was once used as charm against thunderbolt and moths, and it was hung up so that it might point | with its bill to the winds quarter. “INTENTIONAL DUPLICATE EYDNcliDE” | covered | which contained SPLITTING ROCK WITH AIR. Several Acres of Granite Separated From its Bed by One Charge. The expansive force of compressed air is employed in an interesting way } by a North Carolina granite company. On a sloping hillside, composed of granite which shows no bad planes, but splits readily- in any direction when started, a three-inch bore is sunk about eight feet deep and the bottom is enlarged by the exploding of half a stick of dynamite. A small charge of powder is fired in this hole, which starts a horizontal crack or cle: Charges increas- ing in size are exploded until the cleavage has extended over a radius of seventy-five or one hundred feet. Then a pipe is cemented into the bore and air is forced in under a pressure of from eighty to one hundred pounds. The expansion of the air extends the cleavage until it comes out at the surface on the slope of the hill. A sheet of granite several acres in extent may thus be separated. Made His Own Teeth. Charles Bennett, aged 60, a Frank- lin county convict serving five years in the Ohio penitentiary for burglary, not only pulls his own teeth but he makes new ones and puts them in him- self, says the Cleveland Plaindealer. He makes the teeth out of rosin beef bones obtained in the kitchen, using only a little saw and a penknife. He has been using two of the teeth several months and is now at work on others. He pulls his old teeth by means of a fiddle string and then makes the new teeth the shape of the ones pulled out. They are grooved so they fit to the gum and also to the teeth on each side. Snake in Bird Cage. A curious story of a snake which points an old time moral comes from the little village of Althorne, near Burnham on Crouch, Essex. A boy placed a cage, made of a box with one-inch wire netting, some young birds, outside his house. When he went to feed the birds in the morning he dis- covered a large snake coiled up in the eage and all his birds gone. The snake, ich had little diffi- culty in enteri the cage, was una- ple to get out when it had eaten the birds. A man who was attracted by the boy’s shouts quickly destroyed «he reptile. “tn Memory” of a Murder. n “In Memorium” notice in the Herald runs: “In memory of Isie E Adeline Luke, who was cruelly m syed on Hampton Down, August, 18 Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord: I will repay.” advertisement is an echo of ery which disturbed Bath fifteen years ago. The remains of Elsie Adeline Luke, a little girl, were discovered by schoolboys in a cave in one of the hills overlooking the city. This an unsolved m Earliest of Encyclopedias, Pliny’s history may be regarded as the first encyclodedia, sinee it tained 30,000 facts compiled fr. books by 100 authors. i IRD’S BAL Where the Cock o’ the Rock Performs Like the Whirling Dervish. Dancing is by no means confined to quadrupeds. A writer in the Strand says that it is the principal play of many birds. Perhaps the finest of bird dancers is the South American cock o’ the rock. These birds have regular danc- ing places, level spots which they keep clear of sticks and stones, ~ A dozen or more of the birds assem- ble around this spot, and then a cock bird, his scarlet crest erect, steps into the center. Spreading his wings and tail, he begins to dance, at first with slow and stately steps, then gradually more and more rapidly until he is spinning like a mad thing. At last, tired out, he sinks down, hops out of the ring and another takes his place. Some of the quail tribe are great dancers, and so are the American sand hill cranes. It is a most ludic- rous sight to watch a crane dancing; he is so desperately solemn over the whole performance. He looks like a shy young man who has just learned to waltz and is rather ashamed of the The Fair Store SECOND STREET SHERMAN YOST, Prop’r This is the place to get goods at low prices. SEE OUR 5,10 AND (5 CENT COUNTERS Everthing imaginable in the mercantile line. GLASSWARE, CHINAWARE, TIN- WARE, NOTIONS, WRITING TAB- LETS, Household Utensils of every description, Gloves, Mittens, Socks, Men’s Furnishings, Etc. THESE GOODS AND PRICES MUST BE SEEN To be Appreciated Where De Quincey Went to Church. St. Peter’s church, Manchester, which is shortly to be pulled down and in which the last services were held yesterday, is the church which De Quincey attended as a lad and to which there are some entertaining references in “The Confessions of an Opium Eater.” The first rector was De Quincey’s tutor, and he possessed apparently a stock of 330 sermons which the pu- pil confessed became to him “a real instrument of improvement.” He only’ heard half of them, because he at tended only the morning services; but he says “Those same 330-2 ser- mons (lasting only through sixteetf minutes each) for me became a per- fect palaestra of intellectual gymnas- tics, far better suited to my childish weakness than could have been the sermons of Isaac Barrow or Jeremy Taylor.” De Quincey gives his im- pressions of the opening of the church which took place when he waa in his tenth year. That is now 111 years ago. NEW ARRIVALS IN School Togs AT THE PIONEER McHIBBEN CAP Boys’ The Vision of Insects. It is known that insects are ordl- narily unable to fly through a net whose meshes are three or four times the size of their bodies. A bird would dart through such an aperture with- out hesitation. Several explanations have been offered for the conduct of insects in this respect. An official of the Smithsonian Instl- tution not long ago made experiments, reported to the institution, from which he concludes that the peculiar facetted structure of the eyes of insects is the cause of their difficulty in traversing nets. To an insect, he thinks, a net locks like a continuous ~ partially opaque surface, the separate lines be- ing unnoticed, and accordingly, on ap- proaching a net the insect alights be- fore discovering that it might have continued its flight and . passed through. Bring your boy to “The Pioneer” and dress him Dark brown strpied and dark gray checked chiviots in Knick- erbockers, and dark blue, all wool serge in double breasted two-piece. Sizes 10 to = ee a a $7.50 double Pretty, dark gray vatunna, with an invisible plaid of brown and black, and a very dark gray clay worsted Knicker- bocker. Sizes 10 to 14, at $6.50 For the little folks an exception- ally strong line in Russian blayse, knickerbocker and two and three-piece. Sizes to 11. From $2.50 to.......... McMillan’s all wool breasted in dark gray and black. $5 .00 All sizes at $5.50 and Many Others at $2.50 to $5.00 Watch as a Compass. Few are aware of the fact that in a watch they have a very excellent compass. If you wish to use it as such all you have to do is to point the hour hand to the sun and the south is exactly half way between the hour and the figure XII on the face of the watch. Inasmuch as each min- ute is marked off there need be po Red School House Stes JOHN BECHKFELT, Prop, $ difficulty in calculating this accu- ——1—— 1-7 oh rately. F. P. SHELDON. P, J, SHELDON, President. Vice-President | G E O. B O OT i, .E. AIKEN, Cashier. 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